Alec Monopoly Quotes
My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much traditional art.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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I can have an androgynous quality.
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
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A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
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God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.
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My driving force is spirituality.
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Fresh sneakers are important on a man. It's like a new pair of boxers or a new pair of socks.
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In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other.
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It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.
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I started growing my hair out when I was, like, 22, 23. I just stopped cutting it.
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Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.
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My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much traditional art.
